I think both LW-ers and many Christians could agree with that sentiment, although meaning different things by it.
“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” — James 2:14-17
On the particular theological branch that bites the sovereignty-of-god bullet, I’ve heard this explained as an acausal relationship between faith and works (although, not it those words) - god chooses the people he wants to save and they turn out to have faith and do good works. So good works are evidence of saving faith, but have no causal influence on salvation.
I think both LW-ers and many Christians could agree with that sentiment, although meaning different things by it.
“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” — James 2:14-17
Whatever happened to Protestantism and “being saved by Faith alone”?
On the particular theological branch that bites the sovereignty-of-god bullet, I’ve heard this explained as an acausal relationship between faith and works (although, not it those words) - god chooses the people he wants to save and they turn out to have faith and do good works. So good works are evidence of saving faith, but have no causal influence on salvation.